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Empirical
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
如果经验科学是唯一可能的科学，我们将会处于一个非常糟糕的境地。
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
我们对一系列理论的经验标准是，它应该产生新的事实。成长的概念和经验的特性的概念是结合在一起的。
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
达尔文的理论是建立在严格经验主义的概括基础上的。你可以走出去，看到生物体确实在变化，变异是遗传的，每一个生物体都有能力在足够有利的环境下增加自己的数量。